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Show T-Birds bomb Colorado Mines 110-80 for RMAC win Southern Utah State College Thunderbirds posted their second victory of the young Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Con-ference basketball season Tuesday evening with a convincing con-vincing 110-80 victory over visiting Colorado School of Mines. For Mines it was their second loss. They were defeated Monday evening in Salt Lake City by SUSC 101 Hodson..... 10 2-4 22 James 3 0-0 6 Rupp 9 2-2 20 Leavitt ...5 2-2 12 Appleby 0 3-6 3 Walsh 0 0-0 0 Lee 10 2-3 22 Westminster College. SUSC was slow off the starting blocks but when they got going the Miners could not keep pace. Three of the T-Birds scored in the 20's and two others were in double figures. Steve Hodson and Robert Lee shared scoring honors for the T-Birds T-Birds with 22 points each and Kerry Rupp was close behind with 20. Also in double figures was Quinton Davis, who was a terror on the boards in the final chase to the century mark, with 10 and Bernie Leavitt added 12. The T-Birds took their first lead with a bucket from Rupp to put the score at 7-6 and the SUSC crew was never behind again. At the quarter mark the T-Birds were ahead by nine and they stretched that lead to 15 by halftime at 56-41. After the intermission Rupp hit two quick buckets and less than a minute into the second half the T-Birds T-Birds had stretched the lead to 20 points a 61-41. Coach Stan Jack cleared the bench and all but two of the team members got into the scoring column. Colorado Mines got yoeman duty out of guard Gam Coleman :who tanked 26 points to lead all scoring. Coleman was deadly from outside and was perfect at the foul line with 6 for 6. Scott Rutherford was the top man on the boards for the visiting Miners and he added 11 ' points. Swaiun was also in double figures with 13. McNaughton 4 0-0 8 Daniels 2 0-0 4 Davis ...3 4-7 10 Haight 1 3-4 5 Schlapkohl 0 0-0 0 TOTALS 47 18-29 110 COLORADO MINES 80 Shirts 2 2-2 6 Coleman 10 6-6 26 Lundberg 1 4-7 6 Cramer..,..'..... ...3 0-0 6 Rutherford ....5 1-3 11 Swain 5 3-6 13 Brunjak l 0-0 2 Kane 2 3-4 7 Blosser 1 l-i 3 TOTALS .....20 20-29 80 Score, at Halftime: SUSC 56, Colorado Mines 41. |